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External text editor - again

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Had a crash on my machine last week. All the important stuff was backed up

so just an annoyance... Lost a few configuration files.

 

Went to re-install Eagle 5.11 and set Notpad++ as my external editor. Was

making me absolutely crazy as I would enter the path and next time the

program opened, path was corrupted.

 

This is what finally worked (copied from eaglerc but entered from control

panel - Options - User interface). note that the eaglerc entry has an extra

set of quote marks bounding the entire string.

Interface.ExternalTextEditor = ""c:\Program Files\Notepad+\Notepad+.exe"

"%F""

 

Every time opened Eagle, the editor string was showing \ otepad++...

 

Finally realized that Case was *important*

I had originally entered the string as "c:\program

files\notepad+\notepad+.exe" "%F"

 

Was able to duplicate this by putting the errant string into the external

text editor box.

 

Another one of life's little mysteries solved - Oppie

 

 

 

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  • I'm using Eagle 6.3.0 and I've just had a similar problem but the solution given by the OP did not work for me when accessing the setting via the 'Control Panel window -> Options -> User Interface ->External Text editor' setting

    I ran into problems with the %F quotes.

    In the end I used:

    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" %F

    with no extra quotes

    Cheers,

    Keith

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  • I'm using Eagle 6.3.0 and I've just had a similar problem but the solution given by the OP did not work for me when accessing the setting via the 'Control Panel window -> Options -> User Interface ->External Text editor' setting

    I ran into problems with the %F quotes.

    In the end I used:

    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" %F

    with no extra quotes

    Cheers,

    Keith

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